Grant Extension Request - Improving Perl 5

Nicholas Clark has requested an extension of $20,000 for his Improving Perl 5 grant. This grant has been running since September 2011 and is on track to finish successfully this month. The requested extension would allow Nicholas to devote another 400 hours to the project.

Nicholas provides detailed monthly reports and the recent ones can be found in the following blog posts:

Before we make a decision on this extension we would like to have a period of community consultation that will last for seven days. Please leave feedback in the comments or, if you prefer, email your comments to karen at perlfoundation.org.

I think that Nicholas has proven the value of this grant over the last year and I would recommend funding the extension. We should probably keep funding it as long as there is gold in the coffers and Nicholas is willing to keep working on it.